What does HRESULT 0xC0261007 (ERROR_MONITOR_INVALID_USER_FRIENDLY_MONDSC_BLOCK) mean?

 
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ERROR_MONITOR_INVALID_USER_FRIENDLY_MONDSC_BLOCK

ERROR_MONITOR_INVALID_USER_FRIENDLY_MONDSC_BLOCK means that the parser rejected the display-product-name descriptor used for a human-readable monitor name. This is EDID data, not the Windows-generated display path and not the serial-number descriptor.

EDID field involved

The product-name descriptor uses tag FCh. It contains up to 13 ASCII characters; a shorter name ends with a line-feed byte and the remaining positions are padded with spaces. The descriptor's leading bytes and tag must also identify it as a display descriptor rather than a detailed timing block.

What to check

  • Inspect the complete 18-byte descriptor, not only text that a utility rendered as the monitor name.
  • Compare the tag and padding with a known-good raw EDID capture of the same model.
  • Keep this separate from a bad product serial descriptor: the two fields use different tags and answer different identification questions.

VESA: display product name descriptor, tag FCh

Microsoft: WmiMonitorID and E-EDID identification data


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